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[Oliver Grawert <ogra@xxxxxxxxxx>]

hi,
Am Montag, den 23.06.2014, 09:30 -0300 schrieb Sergio Schvezov:
...
> 
> If you find yourself in need of enabling again, you can either reflash with 
> ubuntu-device-flash (from recovery with no need of --wipe) with 
> --developer-mode or you can use the included terminal app and run
> 
>     sudo setprop persist.sys.usb.config mtp
> 
> The UI is pending, but should land in the System Setting in some form (we 
> may hold on to the landing depending on this as well).
> 
one obstacle in implementing developer mode was the requirement to be
root to use setprop. 
with image 108 the new dbus-property-service landed which allows the
user to toggle a few selected properties via dbus commands (which the
system-settings UI will eventually hook into) 

while you now can do something like the following:

dbus-send --system --print-reply \
--dest="com.canonical.PropertyService" /com/canonical/PropertyService \
com.canonical.PropertyService.SetProperty string:mtp boolean:false

(which would disable mtp), the package also ships a script to easily
enable and disable the different options of the android gadget driver.
just use:

phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ android-gadget-service help
usage: android-gadget-service [enable|disable|status] [adb|mtp|ptp|
rndis]

the UI implementation for this with a toggle switch to enable adb in
system-settings will follow soon.

note that by requirement of the security team a future iteration (before
RTM) will only allow to change the gadget properties once there is a
screen locking mechanism enabled, users without this are not supposed to
be able to enable developer mode at all.

the code can be pulled via: bzr branch lp:dbus-property-service

ciao
	oli

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